Apperently getting old iMac, need some advice.


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First of all, this is my first post here at Neowin as I mostly lurk and that's what I have been doing for quite some time now. :)

Last night a friend of mine called. He's getting a old iMac that we're going to play with. The seller isn't very competent at system specs and such so the only information we've got is

  • It's green
  • It's an iMac
  • It was bought two years ago

What we don't know:

  • If it was bought used or not (The old iMacs from 1999 fits the bill when it comes to being green at least.)
  • Anything about the specs (again, she said it was green.)

We're guessing that it's one of these since no other iMacs produced later were green. If anyone knows a newer iMac that is green, don't hesitate to tell us :)

The question: Will one of the iMacs from 1999 run os x panther or jaguar (or whatever the 10.1 edition was called :p)? We've probably got some hardware to beef it up with if it takes normal types of ram (running at correct fsb) and a pci graphics card, so I guess we can muster a little more ram (to bad it has only got 2 dimm-slots) and a gf2 mx with 32 mb of ram. I've got plenty of experience running freebsd and other unixes (and unix-clones) so os x shouldn't be a disadvantage either, but we're more than happy with os 9. Anything new is anything new, right?

Thanks for any replies. IvI.

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hte only machine not capable of running panther but other can run other versions of os x are the beige g3 boxes. all imacs and g3's since the blue and white can run panther, though you may need to put some more ram in there.

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i remember there was a lime green imac and a sage one...

the original green imac (try load cdrom) was released in jan 1999

the lime green imac (slot-load cd rom) was released in mid 1999 (?)

and the sage one was released in 2000

all of them can run mac os x... but u might want to add more ram..

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